Artist's Resource Pack

DSA is available for students undertaking courses in Higher Education. 

The only is exception is for disabled students studying on a Dance and Drama Award scholarship.

DSA funds are to pay for extra costs that you have as a student due to your disability.  You can get them for full time or part time study (for part time study, the money is reduced). You can also get them for open or distance learning. They are not means tested so you get them whatever your financial situation.

You can get three types of support. DSA can pay for
any specialist equipment you need for studying - for example, computer software (For 2006/7, this is up to £4,795 for each disabled student for their entire course)
a non-medical helper, such as a note-taker or reader (for 2006/7, this is up to £12,135 a year, for each disabled student)
extra travel costs you have to pay because of your disability (there is no maximum amount on these costs)
other costs - for example, tapes or Braille paper (for 2006/7, this is up to £1,605 a year, for each disabled student)

You can get a factsheet on DSA from Directgov. It is called the Disabled Students' Allowances factsheet and you can get to it by following this link. This will take you out of the artist’s resource site and straight to the Directgov site and the document. Click Here.

You can find out more from Skill’s information pack Applying for Disabled Students’ Allowances. You can get to the information sheets by following this link. This will take you out of the artist’s resource site and straight to the Skill site and their list of information sheets (www.skill.org.uk/info/infosheets.asp)